Unless the instance owner is a network god, they blacklist the IP address almost immediately (they see thousands of videos watched at the same time from the same IP address, trivial to detect)
The workaround
Quit using YouTube directly and proxy your request through an Invidious instance.
Your requests are mixed in with everyone else’s, only 1 machine touches YouTube directly and that’s the server hosting Invidious.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 month ago
nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Not a solution for most people, unfortunately…
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Could you elaborate on why not?
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Most people don’t even know what Invidious is, let alone the fact that there are other video hosting sites that aren’t youtube (Vimeo, for one).
bilb@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I wonder what percentage of views are done with a general purpose web browser vs. YouTube apps on phones and TVs.
OmegaSunkey@ani.social 1 month ago
You see how often growing youtubers complain about more than 85% of their viewers are not subscribed to the channel, or how just some videos have more views than their main content? The issue is that Invidious doesn’t have the algorithm Youtube provides to everyone, and that not a lot of people really watch their subscribed page.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Why would i have an account in that hellhole?
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s almost irrelevant to subscribe to a channel, the algorithm anyway pushes whatever it wants ignoring your requests
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I actually don’t watch a whole lot of YouTube anymore so I can’t really comment on this here.
But isn’t this what people are trying to avoid when it comes to digital privacy? User data being used in algorithms?